Phyllis Zimmermann

February 14, 2013

NEW ULM - Phyllis Zimmermann, 69, of New Ulm, died Sunday, February 10, 2013 at the New Ulm Medical Center.

Funeral service will be 11 a.m., Friday, February 15 at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in New Ulm with Pastor Wayne Laitinen officiating. Private interment at the New Ulm City Cemetery Columbarium will follow at a later date.

Visitation will be for one hour prior to the time of the service at the church on Friday.

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Minnesota Valley Funeral Home in New Ulm is handling the arrangements. To sign the guest book or to leave an online condolence for her family go to www.mvfh.org.

Phyllis Ida Augusta Krueger was born March 3, 1943 at her parents' home in rural Hamilton Township, LaCrosse County, Wisconsin. She was the second child and first daughter of Walter and Mabel (Niedfeldt) Krueger. Phyllis attended grade school in West Salem, Wisconsin and St. Paul's School in Bangor, Wisconsin. She attended Luther High School in Onalaska, Wisconsin where she was a member of the school's first graduating class in 1961. Phyllis went to college at DMLC in New Ulm where she graduated with a three year teaching certificate in 1964.

Phyllis was called by the WELS to teach 2nd and 3rd grade at East Fork Lutheran School in Whiteriver, Arizona. While at East Fork, Phyllis met her future husband, Nelson Zimmermann. They were married July 31, 1966 at St. Paul's Church in Bangor, Wisconsin. After marriage, Phyllis taught for a year and then began, what was to be the great love of her life, working at the East Fork Lutheran Nursery: a child care facility connected with the East Fork Mission and WELS. The Zimmermanns had eight children. In 1990, Phyllis and Nelson moved to Cibecue, Arizona, where Phyllis taught the lower grades of the mission school on a volunteer basis. In 1996, the family relocated to Sanborn. Phyllis worked for a number of years in the kitchen of the Valley View Manor in Lamberton. In 2004, Phyllis and Nelson retired to New Ulm.